Showing posts with label leap year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leap year. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Ready, steady ......not quite go

No doubt we are all keen (as always) to get into 2009, but we are reminded that a "Leap second" will be added at midnight GMT....so it could indeed be a case of going "10, 9, 8,7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,...1 again, Happy New Year!"
This of course is a tiny correction to allow for the fact that the earth is slowing down ever so slightly.
Of course it won't really bother us since it will happen at Midnight GMT which means it will actually occur at about 10.30 a.m. in Adelaide!

Friday, 29 February 2008

One for the 29th

If you haven't marked the Leap Day in any way then you c ould at least do the Codebreaker Puzzle for 29th February 2008...the last one for this decade! (here)